#MODERN CHESS OPENINGS 14TH EDITION SOFTWARE#
Chess software (now known as “chess engines”) continued to improve, and became capable of assessing and evaluating the best lines of chess to be played. Since then, the software has improved significantly, with Deep Blue created by IBM famously defeating GM Garry Kasparov in 1997 - a landmark moment in popular culture where it seemed machines had finally overtaken humans. Note the many cupboards filled with hardware wired up to it The Ferranti Mk 1 computer, the model Turochamp ran on. Too complex for computers of the day to run, it played its first game in 1952 (and lost in under 30 moves against an amateur). The father of modern computing, Alan Turing, was the first recorded to have tried, creating a programme called Turochamp in 1948. So, let’s discuss computer analysis, chess engines, and ACPL briefly.Īlmost since computers have existed, programmers have tried creating software which can play chess. Some may be feeling confused by what computer analysis is, or what ACPL really means. A Brief History of Chess Engines and ACPLīut first, let’s take a step back. So, our man on the ground in Dubai felt comfortable asking “how do both players feel, having played what appears to be one of the most accurate FIDE World Championship games played in history, as assessed by engines?” At the time, the team had only manually checked through the 2010s - but after getting the answers from the players, we decided to fact-check ourselves and investigate the question more deeply. For various reasons, some of our team know the lifetime average centipawn loss (ACPL) of some top players throughout history, and of previous FIDE World Championship matches. So we immediately knew that the accuracy as determined by computer analysis did indeed seem to be really quite low, even by super-GM standards: 2 ACPL for Magnus Carlsen, and 3 ACPL for Ian Nepomniachtchi. excitable (particularly with what it thinks are blunders), but we decided to check it out. The broadcast chat can occasionally get a bit. After round 3 of the FIDE World Championship 2021 came to a draw between GM Magnus Carlsen and GM Ian Nepomniachtchi, the Lichess broadcast chat immediately pounced upon the incredible accuracy the two players displayed.